Divided Government in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Robert Elgie

Description

Divided government occurs when the executive fails to enjoy majority support in at least one working house of the legislature. To date, the study of divided government has focused almost exclusively on the United States. However, divided government occurs much more widely. It occurs in other presidential systems. Moreover, it is also the equivalent of minority government in parliamentary regimes and cohabitation in French-style semi-presidential systems. This book examines the frequency, causes and management of divided government in comparative context, identifying the similarities and differences between the various experiences of this increasingly frequent form of government. The countries studied include Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland,
Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, and the US.

Divided Government in Comparative Perspective

Edited by Robert Elgie

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors1. What is Divided Government?, Robert Elgie2. Divided Government in the United States, Alan Ware3. Squaring Off: Executives and Legislatures in Ecuador, Monica Barczak4. Divided Government in Mexico's Presidentialist Regime: The 1997-2000 experience, Joseph L. Klesner5. Divided Government in Finland: From a Semi-Presidential to a Parliamentary Democracy, Heikki Paloheimo6. 'Cohabitation': Divided Government French-Style, Robert Elgie7. Divided Government in Poland, Ania Krok-Paszkowska8. Divided Governance: The Case of Denmark, John Fitzmaurice9. Divided Government in Germany: The Case of the Bundesrat, Roland Sturm10. Divided Government in Ireland, PaulMitchell11. Divided Government in Comparative Perspective, Robert ElgieBibliographyIndex